How ancient Europeans saw the world [electronic resource] : vision, patterns, and the shaping of the mind in prehistoric times / Peter S. Wells.
Wells, Peter S.
2012
GN803 .W44 2012eb
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Title How ancient Europeans saw the world [electronic resource] : vision, patterns, and the shaping of the mind in prehistoric times / Peter S. Wells.
Author Wells, Peter S.
ISBN 9781400844777 (electronic book)
0691143382
9780691143385
Imprint Princeton [New Jersey] : Princeton University Press, c2012.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xviii, 285 p.)
Call Number GN803 .W44 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 936
Summary The peoples who inhabited Europe during the two millennia before the Roman conquests had established urban centers, large-scale production of goods such as pottery and iron tools, a money economy, and elaborate rituals and ceremonies. Yet as the author argues here, the visual world of these late prehistoric communities was profoundly different from those of ancient Rome's literate civilization and today's industrialized societies. Drawing on startling new research in neuroscience and cognitive psychology, this text reconstructs how the peoples of pre-Roman Europe saw the world and their place in it.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Of monsters and flowers
Seeing and shaping objects
The visual worlds of early Europe
Frame, focus, visualization
Pottery : the visual ecology of the everyday
Attraction and enchantment : fibulae
Status and violence : swords and scabbards
Arranging spaces : objects in graves
Performances : objects and bodies in motion
New media in the late iron age : coins and writing
Changing patterns in objects and in perception
Contacts, commerce, and the dynamics of new visual patterns
The visuality of objects, past and present.

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